... her all the best, and there she replied with something unexpected. She encouraged me to nurture my passion for travelling, which was a remark that made me feel suddenly understood by someone who I had ...
... by brushstrokes every time we happened to meet at the night shelter, month in, month out. She didn’t have a family of her own. She mentioned a nephew who liked travelling, but alas, was not into volunteering. ...
... carried out. It was an original way to take note of a travel itinerary and it naturally led me to exchange a few words during the handful of seconds that the lift ride lasted. At the hostel door we said ...
... evolution is a goal in itself.
This time I hired a car. I hesitated because if I don’t mind driving, I have never had a car of my own and I am not affected by the car myth. Besides, my habit when I travel ...
It’s been a while since the Couchsurfing site started to send out periodically lists of travellers looking for a host in the area. When I travelled to Spain last June and was invited by a local CS member ...
... I also remembered that at about 16 I travelled to Austria with my family, and had watched my brother and cousin ride that machine and get off as white as a sheet. But I had snubbed it, more on principle ...
... has their personal taste and more importantly has lived a travel experience influenced by the circumstances of their particular visit. The reason I mention this is that of the two towns I had picked, a ...
... the reservation of tickets for the various attractions – hardly my style of travelling. They suggested I should stay with them, but I rejected the idea of being a wheel in the cogs of their arrangements ...
... juxtaposition of natural beauty and man-made prowess.
But to remind the traveller of everyman’s living conditions, even the tiniest patches of terraced land were sown with numbered plants of maize, ...
... country where travelling by train is as complicated as taking the plane. However, I was ready to put up with any inconvenience rather that go to the bus station again. Anshun looked like a friendly town. ...
... of the town.
Foreign tourism is practically non-existent in these parts. I only saw another traveller waiting for the bus, but I was too tired to strike up a conversation. Was I not jealous of sharing ...
My Yunnan travel plans crumbled under the onrush of the torrential rains that hit the province in the early summer. The news were not reassuring, the high mountain roads unsafe, the prospect of outdoor ...
... from the way things go in real life. We have all made the acquaintance of schoolmates, travel companions or army conscripts who we have frequented as long as there was occasion for it. Then, when time ...
... of the protected area, but eventually got invited by a guy who is refurbishing an old flat in Roses and puts it to the disposal of passing travellers. How nice!
I spent the morning in Gerona, gadding ...
... at this specific time given my indifference to reading, I bought one ten days ago.
Before I set about using the gadget, I first had to wind up reading the travel account that my aunt had sent me from ...
... to when I’m tied up to stay in my place of residence because of work. To me holiday equates to getting away. I have never taken a day off for a purpose different from travel and I have followed this personal ...
I was travelling in Ghana. The minibus, or trotro as it is locally known, pulled into the dusty yard of a station and I sprang out the vehicle to retrieve my luggage and find the next bus. A man ...
... station lived through. They were evocative of great railway travels in an era when the train was the only means to reach faraway countries. On those long distances, it was also intended to serve those ...
... a galvanising Africa travel experience right at the moment when I was sadly heading home. But somehow I decided that I would return there on exploration and test the waters, and possibly indulge in some ...
When I returned from my first China trip three years ago, I was convinced that my smattering of Mandarin had been a great advantage in the whole travel experience. Not only had it helped me sort out practical ...